Drawing Historical Parallels by David Starkey
Open Thread – Weekend 23 Dec 2023
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- Open Thread – Remembrance Day 2024
It looks like someone leaked the arrest to the press also. Maximum humiliation desired.
Gaetz just resigned from the House to avoid publicity for raping a victim of child sex trafficking, and to take…
254 years, if we count from the arrival of HM Barque Endevour. Australian productivity is poor, I agree Muddy.
What mystifies me the most about the arrest of Alan Jones are the reports that police had a search warrant.…
Robert Sewell
Dec 24, 2023 2:13 PM
Katzenjammer
Dec 24, 2023 8:11 AM
This is Hamas
Robert,
AVG stops access to that site and calls it infected – FYI
Minneapolis City Hall.
Just waiting for a fire to burn it down, much like Notre-Dame.
An all to common theme with OLD WORLD buildings.
Stayed at Mt Elizabeth station in 2015 and used their mud map to view the rock art. One one side of the stream/river was the Wandjina paintings an on the other side, that Mrs MS and I had to swim to, was some Bradshaws. Fantastic stuff.
I prefer the mystery of Tiahuanaco
Dunno – I’d impose conditions. The Quaraan to be publicly burned, and all mosques in Gaza to be turned into branches of Maccas.
Dot if you see this, does Stake get you to fill out a W8 BEN form to limit IRS tax to 15% on US dividends?
The leaders of Hamas to be stripped of their billions, and kept at hard labor, caring for Israeli widows and orphans for the rest of their miserable lives.
It’s that time of year to piss off all your American lefty friends and wish them a “Merry Christmas”.
Times Square, NY 23 Dec 2023 …
https://twitter.com/i/status/1738599706471670063
Zatara
Dec 24, 2023 2:12 PM
No disrespect, I reckon you were on clueless on the subject until I mentioned it.
People that go to UNI studying history are being ripped off.
It’s sh*t!
Fifty grand please.
There are several online options now and they are competitive on price. The ATO can’t bully you out of making the decision because their staff don’t hold AFSLs.
Don’t know yet. I am doing their cheaper option after Christmas.
and if they send it to every or most libraries in Australia, they get a nice earner care of the Federal government
yep! .. all the books that no one ever reads (or at least admits to reading) still make a motza for the publisher(s) simply because of libraries, public, school, whatever …
No idea of the overall number(s) but their must be 10s 0f 1000s of libraries/branches thru-out Oz and all buy the books on their shelves ……..
Okay, I’m up for the challenge.
This one is okay looking, Cronkite. One of the better ones
Merry Christmas everyone. The other night I caught up with some Cats for some festive cheer. It was lovely get together, in attendance were Lizzie and Hairy, Jupes and his handsome stepson, Rabz, and Vicki and her hubby. I hope we can all catch up in the New Year, and we will be able to see the wonderful Tinta and the sunbather, Gilas, and Beery and his wife. You know, we all know how important and wonderful family is in our lives but let me tell you what is also important and that is good friends, friends you can sit down with over drinks, talk with, discuss, debate, dissent, and most importantly, well for me anyway, and that’s to rant, and you all know how good I am at ranting, I’m just a more entertaining ranter in the flesh!
I love our Cat catch ups.
It is no accident that Christmas and Chanukkah fall around the same time, just like Passover and Easter almost always fall around the same time, because the child of Judaism is Christianity. Jesus was born to a Jewish mother in a Jewish town called Bethlehem, he grew up in a Jewish town called Nazareth. Jesus lived a Jewish life, and when he went to the Jewish city called Jerusalem, he died a Jew. Never forget this, without the mother there is no child.
The West exists because of a unique syncretic fusion of Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome with Judaic Christian values. But the primary influence on the West, and what makes the West special, is the Judaic Christian philosophy and morality that is embedded in its very foundations. Like a living language, the syntax of the West is its Judaic Christian morality and ethics, and when that is trashed and forgotten, the West will fall, and to be honest, we are now witnessing its free fall.
I know I’ve talked about this before but I really believe that to beat the evil in the West, an evil that is slowly but surely destroying it, then lapsed agnostic Christians must return to the churches. Agnosticism and atheism will never triumph over the evil. Christians and Jews must come together, we must be stalwart friends and allies. Like a mother and child, I don’t believe one can exist without the other, we need each other. You saw what happened on 7 October 2023, when Jews (most of whom were secular) were raped, slaughtered and kidnapped, if you think that evil will stop with us Jews, then you have another thing coming and you need to face up to reality because they won’t stop with us Saturday people, they’re coming next for the Sunday people.
Merry Christmas everyone.
They’ve passed the Bill, Sancho.
Now you get to find out the bits they didn’t tell you about…
Australian Jewish Association
@AustralianJA
MUST WATCH: UNICEF EXPOSED – will help children in many places EXCEPT ISRAEL
“As a result of the Hamas Massacre on October 7 and continuing indiscriminate rocket attacks, hundreds of Israeli children have been murdered, injured and kidnapped; tens of thousands of children were displaced from their homes; hundreds of thousands of children have been traumatised.
We tried calling UNICEF to help Israeli children. Their answers left us stunned”
I note the call to the UNICEF Australia was answered by a Gentleman of Hmm Indian Call Centre, whereas UK & USA at least got Native Speakers
Shades of Australian Corporate Businesses!
Piers Morgan. If he isn’t the most annoying full of himself long – winded stupid wanker of all time then I don’t know who is.
For future reference, I see all posts.
I am the Great Sage and Equal of Heaven.
JC
Dec 24, 2023 2:41 PM
I challenge anyone to present an attractive leftie/demorat woman.
Okay, I’m up for the challenge.
This one is okay looking, Cronkite. One of the better ones
JC,
Is that Really a Female or is IT a Male?
Plz stop.
Parish priest defends having two mothers of baby Jesus as reflective of modern families
Our Foreign Staff
A church nativity scene featuring two mothers of the Baby Jesus instead of the conventional Mary and Joseph has sparked anger in Italy.
Nativity scenes are popular in the largely Catholic country, but in recent years they have been increasingly mired in culture wars as its society becomes more secular and multi-cultural.
The priest at the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, in Capocastello di Mercogliano, a hamlet in the province of Avellino about one hour’s drive east of Naples, has defended its depiction of the birth of Jesus.
“I wanted to show with this scene that families are no longer just the traditional ones,” said Father Vitaliano Della Sala.
“In our parishes we see more and more children from the new types of families that exist and are part of our society: children of separated and divorced people, gay couples, single people, young mothers.”
Father Della Sala, known in Italy for sympathising with LGBT and left-wing causes, says his attitude is in line with that of Pope Francis, who this week allowed priests to bless same-sex couples in a landmark ruling.
But Senator Maurizio Gasparri, of the co-ruling Forza Italia party, said the LGBT creche “offends all those who always had respect and devotion for the Holy Family”.
The Pro-Vita & Famiglia (Pro-Life and Family) group called it “dangerous, as well as shameful and blasphemous”.
Petition
Pro-Vita, which launched an online petition calling on the Bishop of Avellino to intervene, said the nativity scene contradicted the Church’s teachings on the family and legitimised same-sex parenting and surrogacy.
The petition has so far attracted more than 21,000 signatories.
Having children through surrogacy is illegal in Italy, and parliament is discussing a government-sponsored law that would also criminalise couples who resort to the practice by going abroad.
This week, a senator from the prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party proposed another bill that would prevent school directors from halting Catholic-themed activities such as Christmas plays or the making of nativity scenes.
Watched Maestro last night. The movie started a little cold, a little annoying, but when it sprang into color it became more interesting. Bernstein lived most of his adult life in NYC and I checked where. He lived at 895 Park Ave, which is on the corner of 79th. Great building.
I read the apartment sold in 2012 for around $30 million. I hope they renovated the place. Monthly maintenance is around 21k a month.
Building facade
Merry Christmas and Chanukkah sameach Cassie!
(Forgive me if I know not what I google)
I commend my new T-shirt motto to you:
FRONT
TOWARD ENEMY
For now we know where they are.
You bastard head prefect, I just spat out a perfectly good piece of Camembert when I opened your link. Non stop cute owls to cleanse my frontal lobe.
An M18A1 mine carrying bag makes rather a distinctive “man – bag.”
Nonsense, Macbeth. Great to see you.
I trust you’ll have a beautiful Christmas with the ones you love.
Don’t be a stranger!
PS: I have a mate at the pub who’s only 89. He’s showing few signs of fading and is doing his best to make a ton.
Britain plans to bomb Iran-backed rebels threatening world economy
Britain and the United States are crafting covert strategies to combat Houthi attacks in the Red Sea.
Last night experts questioned Russia’s role in the campaign, which is set to raise the price of Liquid Natural Gas bound for the West by sea from Qatar, just as Europe begins to stabilise after Moscow’s attempt to leverage its energy supplies.
A British naval contingent left by HMS Diamond and including the frigate HMS Lancaster, three minesweepers and three support vessels have been moved into regional waters.
Britain and the United States are drawing up secret plans to bomb sites in Yemen to stop rebel attacks on Red Sea shipping that threaten the world’s economy.
Most of the world’s attention has been on Israel and Gaza, but concern is growing over the increasing boldness of Houthi strikes on cargo fleets
The move follows three weeks of chaos in the vital maritime gateway to the Suez Canal, after the Iranian-backed rebels began to strike commercial shipping transiting the international waters of the Bab al-Mandab strait.
Houthi forces hijack tanker ship in the Red Sea
Their aim is to disrupt commercial shipping to the extent that it forces the West to drop its support for Israel, which is currently engaged in a bitter war against Hamas in Gaza.
Last night experts questioned Russia’s role in the campaign, which is set to raise the price of Liquid Natural Gas bound for the West by sea from Qatar, just as Europe begins to stabilise after Moscow’s attempt to leverage its energy supplies.
A British naval contingent left by HMS Diamond and including the frigate HMS Lancaster, three minesweepers and three support vessels have been moved into regional waters.
Now, in a top secret plan, military commanders have proposed using US and UK Reaper drones armed with Hellfire missiles to carry out precision attacks on Houthis military bases on the outskirts of Sanna, in Yemen.
It follows a decision to send UK Social Forces to the US base in Djibouti – on the edge of the Bab al-Mandab – a week ago, to monitor and collate intelligence from sources inside Yemen about the location of rebel operating bases.
Last night Peter Aylott, director of policy for the UK Chamber of Shipping, questioned the accuracy of the Houthis information.
“What has surprised the West most has been Yemen’s uncanny ability to accurately identify which vessels to attack to press these attacks accurately. There has been zero collateral damage,“ said Mr Aylott, a former Lt Commander with command experience.
“I think it is worth asking the question whether Iran has the experience to collate open source material so accurately, or whether it is actually Russia, which has a proven track record in this sort of thing and every incentive.”
Russia expert Keir Giles , of the Chatham House think tank, said: “Russia may not be the driving force behind this, but it will certainly behave opportunistically in offering any help it can.”
The Houthis have stated that if Western warships move into the area they will turn the waterway into a maritime graveyard indicating their forces will mine the region and close the entrance to Suez.
And Peter Aylott warned that any attempt by Houthis to use ballistic missiles, which are fired up into the air and land at hypersonic speeds. may prove a challenge to naval vessels.
“Only a select few types of vessel can handle ballistic missiles. The real problem is that we have not faced this threat for a very long time. This is not the Falklands and Iraq where these are being fired en masse. We are out of practice and there is a risk that the coalition will find it difficult from a geographic and capability point of view to protect merchant shipping.”
Justin Crump, of the Sibylline strategic risk group said: “The refusal to deploy a convoy system is dangerous, in my view.
“Container vessels are currently strung out. it is not difficult for Houthis to board them if the nearest deterrent is 150 miles away.”
Really, it’s time we got out of the UN.
It will only help our enemies.
Dunno if they still do it
Don’t have to post – OldOzzie already on the job
Awesome post. Yes, the “Right” need to find a way to coalesce. Your suggestion about returning to churches is valid and probably best bet/only chance, but likelihood is 0.00001% etc.
What I have been employing is to call out Leftoid horseshit there and then when it occurs. Fuck polite company, time is short. Many average folk, like the person in front of you at the supermarket checkout agree.
the process is the punishment
Guess Who Else Is Funding Pro-Hamas Protests Across the Country
Chaos on Fifth Avenue: Pro-Hamas Protesters Try to Disrupt NYC Christmas Shopping
For future reference, I see all posts.
I am the Great Sage and Equal of Heaven.
like Argus
I signed up with Stake- let’s see what happens at dividend time
Kissinger’s corrosive legacy still weighs on U.S. policy in Asia
Peace reigns here now, everyone’s plugged into the net, after a tumultuous welcoming of daughter and three extremely excited children, aged 9, 7 and 3. Picking them up from the airport Hairy then took them all to the supermarket to buy the ham daughter is going to glaze today, no hams in two supermarkets so had to go to specialty butcher and pay $110 for a small one there. Who cares, it’s Christmas!
Before they arrived I finished stringing the sunroom with flashing coloured lights, entailing much searching for appropriate extension leads. As it was quite dark, with thunder clouds threatening, the lights were very cheering when the littlies stormed in, finding the elf in seconds, and heading for the Gingerbread House Cookie Jar for a lucky dip of wrapped Choc bars and Freddos, where you hope to get your favourite but set up a swap bargaining position if you don’t.
,
My oldest son is now mollified as situation with his brother over a computer is explained more fully; feathers ruffled are now smoothed. He will attend tomorrow and is grateful to accept a lift. So all’s quiet here on the eastern suburbs’ front.
A joyful Christmas Eve to all Cats and Kittehs, wherever you are, while Santa does his magic spin around this poor old globe. I am pleased to report that all three children looked at our Eskimo Nativity and all of them knew it immediately as the home of Baby Jesus. Palestine Shed or Igloo, Baby Jesus still lives at Christmas.
Mich. Satanist Capitol Display Condemned by only 9 of 54 House Republicans, no Democrats
Professor Calls for Dismantling US: ‘Greatest Predator Empire’
Nikki Haley Buys $2.4 Million Waterfront Property in South Carolina Five Months After Joining Boeing’s Board of Directors
Biden Military Nominee Celebrated NATO’s ‘Demand’ For ‘Diversity’ And ‘Inclusion’
End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
This is incredible.
Disney pulled ad spending from X, so Elon pulled Disney+ from Tesla screens
Professor Calls for Dismantling US: ‘Greatest Predator Empire’
Nothing respectable, scholarly or admirable about being a perfesser now.
This is simply unbelievable. Just imagine if police descended on you in force thinking that you had murdered someone.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
The demons on the left are now swatting my followers. Scum.
Christmas at the UN run UNICEF! no money for Israeli children! Just FMD.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/12/australian-jewish-association-exposes-unicef-in-recorded-phone-calls.html
Bespoke if you are around do you still have the link for that Palestinian map meme debunking?
Shades of Disney in Orlando Florida.
A billionaire’s plan to turbo-charge his private city
Rich Lister Maha Sinnathamby survived financial ruin to build Australia’s biggest private city. But the 80-year-old is far from done.
Standing up here on level 10, you can almost believe you’re in a real-life version of the video game SimCity.
There’s the hospital, the university campus and the train station on the edge of the city centre.
Look below and you’ll see the Queensland headquarters of faded corporate icon GE, in a gleaming 10,000 square metre building. Next to the main shopping centre, a giant wading pool sits as the centrepiece of a sprawling park.
Swing around and you’ll see a light industrial zone up on the hill. An apartment development being managed by Chinese group R&F Properties is under construction, and a huge complex of sporting fields has been recently completed.
Down by the train station, a patch of ground will house the new home of the Brisbane Lions AFL football club; the facility will include broadcast-quality lighting so it can host the Lions’ AFLW games.
Zoom out further and the true scale of this place becomes clear: six suburbs, 16,500 homes, 11 schools and almost 40,000 residents.
Of course, this is no video game. This is Springfield, the incredibly ambitious, privately developed city that sits 26 kilometres from the centre of Brisbane.
For the past 27 years, the 2860 hectare site that encompasses Greater Springfield has essentially been wrestled into life by two men: Maha Sinnathamby, valued at $1.27 billion on this year’s Rich List, and his long-time business partner Bob Sharpless.
Despite criticism, controversies and a string of near-death moments, Sinnathamby has managed to turn Springfield from a house-and-land haven into a bustling little metropolis, at least in part through the sheer force of his personality.
The Malaysian-born developer prodded, cajoled and convinced politicians to build highways and train lines to connect Springfield to Brisbane, and even convinced the government to hand him total planning control of the region via legislative change.
But Sinnathamby says his vision is only about 25 per cent complete.
Yes, it’s hard not to be impressed by the city’s amenities and activity from the balcony of Sinnathamby’s Springfield City Group (SGC), high above the city. When I first came to Springfield in 2004, Sinnathamby’s office was in a single-storey building on the edge of a housing development. The transformation of the city is stunning.
But there’s clearly still much more to be done. You can’t miss the tracts of undeveloped land that remain throughout the city centre; when AFR Weekend visits, a travelling circus has set up shop on one of the big paddocks.
So at the age of 80, Sinnathamby wants to move faster.
Since the middle of the year, he’s been quietly holding discussions with investment banks and consulting giants, aimed at getting help to turbo-charge the growth of the city by attracting big employers.
Sinnathamby claims tech giants such as Microsoft, Google and Facebook are on his target list. There may be a touch of hyperbole here from Springfield’s chief spruiker, but the names are both a measure of Sinnathamby’s ambition and recognition of the need to create jobs in Springfield, and not just homes.
“We are now going to take this project to the market,” Sinnathamby says. “The reason is there’s a lot of heavy lifting to be done. A lot of heavy, heavy lifting to be done.”
Sinnathamby’s daughter, Raynuha, who is managing director of SGC, is clear about what the company needs to do.
With plans for a population of around 140,000 people by 2030, it wants to lift employment in the city from about 19,500 direct and indirect jobs to 50,000.
“If we don’t deliver 50,000 jobs, then our job is not done,” she says simply.
Planning expert Professor John Stanley, of the University of Sydney, is full of admiration for the way Springfield has been carefully planned.
He sees scope to turn it into Brisbane’s second CBD, in the way Parramatta has been set up as a second centre for Sydney.
He also backs Sinnathamby’s push on employment. He argues jobs – and possibly even more jobs than SGC is aiming for – will cement the city’s future.
“If Springfield wants to really start to compete with the big boys as a major city, it’s going to need higher aspirations for job growth than it’s got at the moment,” Stanley says.
Shifting grounds
Springfield’s origin story has achieved a sort of mythical status, carefully shined by Sinnathamby’s showmanship and passion.
It goes something like this. In 1992, a nearly broke Sinnathamby stumbles on an unwanted parcel of 7000 acres put up for sale by a forestry company – “very, very conservative, pipe-smoking chaps,” he says now – and secures it for about $8 million.
But rather than subdividing the parcel for house-and-land packages, he and Sharpless think big.
After studying a string of master-planned communities in the United States and Britain, they decide to capitalise on the sheer size of the land to build a city from the ground up.
In 1995, Sinnathamby convinces Queensland premier Wayne Goss to fund the extension of the Century Highway to Springfield, giving the project a vital transport link.
Two years later, he manages to get Queensland Parliament to back a special act of Parliament that puts all the planning and development powers for Greater Springfield in the hands of SGC.
The University of Southern Queensland opens its Springfield campus in 2006, the train line follows in 2013, and a campus of the Mater hospital is established two years after that.
https://greaterspringfield.com.au/our-city/
Just started bucketing down. One minute no rain, then very heavy rain. Southern Geelong. Look out Melbournites.
That’s being way too nice to Piers, he stands alone at the very top of the stupid wanker pinnacle, unchallenged for all time.
What a change — Gordon Ramsay taken out of his restaurant kitchen and the shouting at apprentice chefs, then surrounded by young nieces (I imagine), who’ve not yet reached the mad early teens of young females.
The result is a quietly spoken Gordon Ramsay unleashing his cooking creativity in full flight in his Ultimate Christmas…
…including the best beef Wellington recipe I’ve seen, which I vow to attempt next time on am on the family Christmas cooking roster.
Thanks, Gordie. I’m liking the puppy dog version of you.
Q. What is a Dixie Chick?
A. I don’t know; I’m not a biologist.
We’d like that Beef Wellington recipe too, Tom. It’s a tricky thing to get right.
Stuck for something to binge watch .. this baddies v baddies is quite entertaining ,,
CULPRITS ,,,
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14531774/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_q_culprits
I have to be charitable, since one shouldn’t speak ill of the dead.
Laura Lynch of ‘Dixie Chicks’ Dies in Car Crash (23 Dec)
Major TDS sufferers.
Laura Lynch left the band in 1995.
Go ahead make my day! .. LOL!
a downtick for a TV series recommendation …… ya gotta be kiddin’ ………!
Beef Wellington with mushrooms, favourite of the Mushroom Murderess.
She looks like a fat, ugly left wing lesso. I challenge anyone to present an attractive leftie/demorat woman.
How about this then instead –
Poor Santa came down with a very bad cold
Thought he might have to put Xmas on hold
But Mrs Clause drove the sleigh
Rudolph laughed all the way
“The best Xmas ever!” so we’ve been told
Merry Christmas everyone. The other night I caught up with some Cats for some festive cheer.
Yes, Cassie. We very much enjoy the “catch-ups”, and this year, it was especially important. These are ominous times, with evil abroad and intent upon expanding. We need to reaffirm our values and beliefs, and share them with like minds.
We are not alone.
It follows a decision to send UK Social Forces to the US base in Djibouti – on the edge of the Bab al-Mandab – a week ago, to monitor and collate intelligence from sources inside Yemen about the location of rebel operating bases.
Social Forces? LOL.
Maybe Special Forces. I doubt that they will be popping in any time soon just for a chat.
Big noisy storms here at the moment.
I’ve had a thought that a good punishment for Hamas dogs would involve being tied to a nice metal pole with excellent conductivity and leaving them out in a lightning storm – God’s will and all that.
Stayed at Mt Elizabeth station in 2015 and used their mud map to view the rock art. One one side of the stream/river was the Wandjina paintings an on the other side, that Mrs MS and I had to swim to, was some Bradshaws. Fantastic stuff.
Did much the same – although we camped near the crossing. Didn’t swim though because of crocs – & camped well back! We did see a Wandjina on our side, but saw the Bradshaws up near the Falls.
Old Santa got drunk on cool ale
“I’m too old for Christmas” his wail
“But what of the toys
For the good girls and boys?”
“I’ll send all the presents by mail!”
The North Pole is bustle and noise
As Santa and those he employs,
Prepare for the day
By loading the sleigh
With gifts for the good girls and boys.
This has been the case for some time now and it doesn’t help when our own government joins the enemy as Albo’s people did recently.
The UN made sense in the beginning when it was a forum for letting off steam so situations don’t degenerate into wars. These days it is a forum for promoting wars. Even the UN peace keeping forces are now just corrupt occupying often worse than the warring armies.
UN costs too much and is counter productive at the best of times, disband the whole and let countries form blocks with friendly nations.
This has weighed heavily on our minds and in our hearts,” Saint Mary’s College President Katie Conboy said to faculty in a Thursday email, obtained by the Daily Signal, revealing that the board of trustees decided return to its original policy of only accepting female applicants.
The name Katie Conboy is quite ironic in the circumstances.
Serves me right for clicking on the link I guess 🙂
Islamists planned to carry out several terror attacks on Christians in Europe on Christmas Eve and on Christmas Day in Austria, Germany and Spain
Klaus – Soviet Style Christmas
Santa Klaus – You will get no presents and you will be happy –
What will be history’s verdict on Neville Albanese?
Pouring rain.
The harvest was finished yesterday and everything’s cleaned and shedded.
The wife is happy because the garden is getting a good drink which is pretty much the same as me. Cheers!
It’s finally Flanneried on us now.
I’ve packed up and am headed home.
Merry Christmas everyone.
* Great to see macbeth is still with us. All the very best to the Cat centenarian!
Is it too late to whip one of these up for Christmas dinner?
Yorkshire Christmas Pie
Pouring rain.
The harvest was finished yesterday and everything’s cleaned and shedded.
The wife is happy because the garden is getting a good drink which is pretty much the same as me. Cheers!
Fantastic! Cheers indeed!
That is how it must be assumed to ensure this never happens again. For many it’s hard to imagine or understand. Even when you see public rejoicing by Pallies and their supporters across the globe.
But there is is. The scope of the evil living among us. Israel must not stop until it’s wiped Hamas from the face of this earth. It’s their only viable option. And the sooner the better for us all.
For them it’s the reason for the season.
Good on you and 132 Bush. Mate of mine at Mininera was still trying to finish harvest this weekend. Dry summers it can go into January around there. Not this year.
Peas in our time. And bugs.
Merry Xmas macbeth!
And I hope we hear from you happily for a long time to come.
Zatara,
I saw that pie yesterday. I reckon I’ll give it a go next Winter. Christmas in July. It looks good and reading the recipe, not hard.
What is it about Christmas and turning drivers into dheads. Driving is bad enough in this town at normal times.
32 deg & 70% humid. No storms again today despite atmosphere having all the ingredients for. Anything throwing sparks out of clouds is well west and very isolated today.
Early Christmas present today. Water main burst today as well. Controlled for now but the quote was an eye watering $1300 to replace 6m of perished poly between the copper. Plumber relative of mine said “it could be done for much less, tradies hey… Christmas prices.” Hopefully it holds another week so I can get some other quotes.
It was indeed.
We discovered a little gem yesterday.
Walked from Bellevue Hill to Woollahra through Cooper Park. You could be in a Queensland rain-forest. Might give it a miss this evening though. Just started pelting down.
Are you going to have a sook to the Online Safety Nanny, Betty?
Do it.
Just do it.
Ha! Neville Albanese, hamas supporter, “Pieces in our Time”. Really suits the spivelling spit sprayer.
Check the mushies.
That will strengthen support for Hamas and Gaza.
Not.
There was a research study* some years back that cane to that exact conclusion.
*Yes, I know.
The original Neville Chamberlain had several problems. Popular opinion was bitterly opposed to another war, the British Army wasn’t equipped to fight a land war on the Continent, the Royal Air Force was approaching block obsolescence, and the Dominions wouldn’t have fought. It makes Albo look even more craven by comparison.
That very much depends.
I talked to two lefties after 9/11 and they thought America had it coming.
And they weren’t even far left. They’d regard themselves as centrists politically.
In anticipation of tomorrow being busy, a very happy Christmas to all Cat posters and the non-posting Cat-adjacent.
Bit hard on Nev.
Simon Heffer’s latest reckons he was under no illusions about the Fuhrer.
Heffer discovered a trove of Chamberlain letters. For years he would sit down on Sunday evenings and write to his two maiden aunts in a very dutiful, son of the Empire way. The letters show he had taken Hitler’s measure and knew exactly the type of ruthless thug he was dealing with.
His ‘peace in our time’, fluttering paper aloft in his hand was, he said, because he wanted to assuage the public mood which was increasingly panicky. But, Heffer insists, he wasn’t deceived by Hitler.
Dr F.
Back at youse all.
Re the joys of solid cubic shapes at Christmas time, it isn’t always so.
I had the melancholy duty to buy a book for someone tomorrow which had been requested.
The David Marr book about “Frontier Wars”. Had to resist the rising vomit in my throat as I paid for that one.
Merry Christmas to all Cats and Kittehs. Happy Hannukkah to Cassie and Katz and any other Jewish members of the group who I may have missed.
Thanks again Dover for running this forum.
I’m glad the harvest has beaten the rains for our resident farmers.
Thanks for the cartoons Tom.
Their de facto setting is that the West is likely wrong and guilty, our complainants are therefore likely to have a just cause and we should give them what they want.
Cats – many, many Pallyweirdos are having their pointless existences brought to a long overdue end.
Do I give a rodent’s backside?
NO! 🙂
Any sympathy gone as of October Seven.
Not that I ever had any to start with, I tells ya! 🙂
Eat it, you fat stupid inbred manboobed imbeciles.
As for their bag headed bimbeciles … 🙂
The speed in which a year passes as you get older is a little disconcerting.
It’s because once you’re over the hill everything speeds up.
Simon Heffer wrote the classic “Like The Roman” – a biography of the immortal Enoch Powell.
I do.
I approve.
The book which received such a glowing review from Marcia Langton?
A big fat heart attack waiting to happen …
OK – let’s take it from here* …
*Some perfect punk, Cats. 🙂
Palestinian Loss of Land The Myth of the 4 Maps
I’m declaring this real.
Rocks from orbit?
The Clash – Rock the Casbah (1982)
Thanks Bespoke, I was thinking of the other one that was two guys discussing the changes, one with an eastern European accent.
The Cenk – what a joke.
So funny watching Douglas Murray vivesecting him in the debate hosted by Piers Morgan.
The Cenk: “No one has ever heard of you, you exist on a substack read by no one”
The Murray: “I’m a best selling author, you primate”*
*Which he didn’t say, because he didn’t need to.
But yeah, all those poor li’l very dead gazan kiddees**
**Whom I still don’t give a rodent’s about! 🙂
I talked to two lefties after 9/11 and they thought America had it coming.
My experience exactly, Roger. In my case, it was a woman friend of long standing. I could hardly believe the words. Needless to say, she has disappeared from our circle of friends.
As Lefties get older, it seems to me they become more sour – this was certainly the case with her. Even now, when I occasionally spot her in a cafe in our district, she seems always to have a lip curled in disdain at some thing or another. She was once a cheerful, smart woman. What on earth happens to Lefties as they age?
There is nothing centrist about a man who would not take his own side in a fight. He is useless to anybody who matters.
I don’t recall the exact one, Rosie.
Did Israel Steal Palestinian Land?
Their misanthrope, never given opportunity to come to its full expression without a bloody revolution, starts to ferment within.
OK I’ll say it. About 15 years ago a lefty of my acquaintance said 9/11 was a false flag operation. I said RUBBISH. Now I’m not so sure- great smokescreen to set up DHS among other assaults on freedom and privacy.
I’ll also say I don’t blame Chamberlian one little bit for want to avoid another war. The horrors of WWI were fresh in many people’s minds.
She was once a cheerful, smart woman. What on earth happens to Lefties as they age?
They sadly dry up and get vinegar tits.
The Bushes are dirt. Note how GWB never criticized O’bummer but had plenty to say about DJT.
That’s the one thank you bespoke!
Unless they go full Bill Leak.
I’ve been chuckling about this recently, Cats, as we watch Johannes fill the void left by his Father’s untimely death.
The latter being a scion of “progressive” society who ended becoming an unrepentant non-collectivist.
His erstwhile brethren’s indignant self righteous howls were audible in space … 🙂
No, they wouldn’t fight.
They did, however, mock those prepared to do so.
They refuse to renounce the idiocy.
Once I ceased being a collectivist (as of about 2008*) I began sleeping very soundly at night and could look at myself in a mirror without thinking “you are a monstrous hypocrite”.
*Yes, it took a while – 9/11 was a catalyst, then I started reading Tim Blair and Mark Steyn.
Dr. John Campbell
Excess deaths
Sling them ‘The Pocket Windschuttle’ for their birthday.
They get bitter, watching others not swallow the obviously intelligent and elevated view of socialist life they spew out, knowing they have been found out and failed in their calling. Leading failed lives. So they gather more and more among themselves, wallowing in their collective bitterness.
You are still a newbie, Rabz.
Trump’s Prosecutor Campaigned On Hating Trump!
As Lefties get older, it seems to me they become more sour – this was certainly the case with her. Even now, when I occasionally spot her in a cafe in our district, she seems always to have a lip curled in disdain at some thing or another. She was once a cheerful, smart woman. What on earth happens to Lefties as they age?
I think it’s affluence. They have no idea about the world beyond the suburbs they live in, which in the case of Sydney, it’s the eastern suburbs, north shore and northern beaches. But I tell what is worse about these women, and that is that they don’t care about the world outside these suburbs. Back in September, prior to the referendum, I confronted one of the YES spruikers on a Saturday morning. I told her that if she’s really committed then she should be spruiking the referendum out in Penrith, Casula and Campbelltown. Well, the look on her face was priceless, her jaw dropped like she’d been struck with sudden onset Bells Palsy, and she said to me “but why, I live in Wentworth”.
This is why the referendum result on 14 October 2023 was soooooo, sooooo sweet. These females aren’t often subjected to a smack down, but they were on the night of 14 October.
Christmas, reindeer, Santa etc
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/12/heh_01156439024.html
Zatara might like this one.
Dunno.
Paid for it and got it wrapped straight away so I didn’t have to look at it.
Cassie of Sydney at 10:52
If SloMo had displayed a scintilla of leadership it would have disappeared. IMO the Lieborals would still have lost – but for the legitimate reasons they deserved to lose.
Cheers Rosie. Glad I could help.
Well they tried the wimmin problem- TLS and the meja- against Abbot and it didn’t work. They resurrected some foul old slag who knew him back in 1977 iirc.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha at 6:06
Jebus. When a lump of coal just won’t do.
This is why the referendum result on 14 October 2023 was soooooo, sooooo sweet. These females aren’t often subjected to a smack down, but they were on the night of 14 October.
The highlight of 2023 Cassie.
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This is why the referendum result on 14 October 2023 was soooooo, sooooo sweet.
It was gratifying too to have my faith in the majority of voters confirmed.
I can’t remember the last time I was so sheepish about buying a publication and had to insist on a plain wrapper before I left the shop.
The highlight of 2023 Cassie.
Well, except for Collingwood winning the Grand Final.
The Media’s Great Trans “Cover Up”. A “Misogynistic & Homophobic Men’s Rights Campaign”
Like so many evil leftist notions, the wimmin problem was cribbed from the US.
Thank all you feline friends for your encouragement. I’ll give it a go. Loved ones with Christmas lunch tomorrow. Special one is very like the cute and wonderful Senator Price. Smart, too.; and “NO’ she said.
Torn up page by page and burnt in a chip heater, that book would a) be renewable and b) give you a nice hot bath!
Of course, coal is a lot harder to burn at home.
Raining cats & dogs on the western edge of Melb plus thunder
Have a lovely day, macbeth!
They won?
Good for them.
Q: Two Collingwood supporters in a car; who chooses the radio station?
A: The policeman in the front seat.
Having personal friends among the aircrews who never came home to their families that day I am to say the least particularly unreceptive to such claims.
Anyway, after what has happened with regard to Trump and his supporters over the last 8 years, I wouldn’t put anything past establishment trash like Bush.
Macbeth, if you have a fine lady relation anything like Sen. Price you are blessed indeed. Have a great day! For us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders (Isaiah 9:6).
Front row seat time, Cats
Blur – Parklife
Oi! ?
Recommend the recipient of the gift to the Keith Windschuttle series on “The Myths of Frontier Massacres in Australian History” in the October, November and December, 2000 issues of “Quadrant.”
Point out that more then one of those “Frontier Massacres” – three in Western Australia alone – was fully investigated, and found to be nothing more then “Stories My Nanna Told Me.”
The notion of frontier “wars” is a lie intended to reframe our history.
ROFL
Reminds me of some trollop Tim Blair used to reference often. She was originally a New Zealander, wrote in the SMH. Elizabeth Farelly?
He was a joke and a very unfunny one at that.
Waging war on the English language when he wasn’t selling them door to door.
Are we able to expect any better, however?
This the idiocy of modern life, Cats.
Utterly discredited Hollyweirdos* …
Trigger warning: Hideously uglee ol’ Hollyweird Dinobore …
*Again
The notion of frontier “wars” is a lie intended to reframe our history.
also imported from North America
Have a real Christmas, a Merry Christmas.
Thank you dover and all for this forum. Personsal – I’ve really needed it since October 7th. I was on the old cat but never posted very often. One of my main forums is sniping on the idiotic The Conversation, established to show plebs what’s going on in academia. I’ve been dismissed from it a few times due to outpoken heresies, but digitally reincarnated myself each time with a new name.
A date for your diaries next year – 24th October 2024. That’s 23 Tishri on the Hebrew calendar. It’s the day after the Hamas slaughters. The Hebrew calendar shouldn’t remember Hamas on the day they chose. The day after, 23 Tishri is when world wide genocidal antisemitism crawled out from under the rock. 23 Tishri is also Simchat Torah, the day the Torah Scroll is wound back to the beginning with singing and dancing in the Synagogue, ready for the next of the few thousand annual readings we have behind us.
On the day when genocidal antisemitism raised its hydra headed monstrosity again, we sing and dance, remember who we are, and carry on as usual – l’chaim.
Having personal friends among the aircrews who never came home to their families that day I am to say the least particularly unreceptive to such claims.
Yes, and now the same is being said about 7 October.
“First Nations” should be entitled to a treaty and reparations….
In this region there’s a push to rename a local mountain after the indigenous warrior who allegedly led the resistance movement.
He harassed settlers crossing the great divide with spears and stones, leading to the Red Coats being called up from Moreton Bay to deal with the matter, which they did.
Their records recorded it as a police action, not military in nature, and no battle honour was awarded.
Yep – Barkin’ Betty Farrelly.
Her contempt for the working class was the stuff of legend.
Hypocrisy – best indulged in when it’s invisible.
Q: Two Collingwood supporters in a car; who chooses the radio station?
A: The policeman in the front seat.
Pay that Chris 🙂
Exactly.
The invasion of Iraq would have to go down as the biggest disaster of the 21st century. Bush, bLIAR and hoWARd should stand condemned.
Katzenjammer
Dec 24, 2023 7:39 PM
Nice words Katz.
On the day when genocidal antisemitism raised its hydra headed monstrosity again, we sing and dance, remember who we are, and carry on as usual – l’chaim.
Yes, it’s a mitzvah, to celebrate l’chaim. This has succoured and nurtured us for thousands of years, and it will succour and nurture us for thousands more.
Hear this, we Jews aren’t going anywhere.
Am Yisrael Chai.
9/11 was essentially done by Saudis was it not?
err, umm, I’m not having it, Cass, I tells ya.
To do so would be one of the greatest cop outs in human history.
I’m sort of willing to pretend, if I get to wield a sword and slay many, many moozley imbeciles.
Then my ol’ man might finally be proud of me.
This esteemed Blogue’s most elder Statespersonage – long may he Reign.
Yeah bro, you remember.
She whined once about having to go to Kingswood, to access the State Archives etc. “The archives should be housed in the city”
Read that as respect the source of your heritage, the foundations of your culture, values and morals. Do it anywhere.
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Afghanistan offers some stiff competition.
Especially given the humiliation of the US in the denouement.
True Roger
Merry Christmas to all Cats and Kittehs and many thanks to Dover for this blog where we can be among people of similar views.
I hope the New Year will be a much better one than the present. For me I am looking forward to a year of celebration after having recently received the all clear from the medical staff re a lymphoma discovered 18 months ago. The good Lord looked after me and totally clear.
Cenk Uygak is the piece of human shit inside the White House who sees himself as Barack Obama’s deputy in running the Joe Biden puppet presidency.
Uygak is the Hamas representative in the Biden administration, reeling off the Hamas talking points like a real pro.
After Barack OBama, Cenk Uygak is the most evil man in American politics and I hope he dies a long, slow, painful death, God forgive me.
Roger,
That tale of resistance with rocks and spears is almost certainly outdated as more recently research from Bruce Pascoe has uncovered the Meanjin Javelin missile factory… :?-?)
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For your boyfriend?
Yes, but was it condoned, organised or supported by the reigning regime of Saudi Arabia?
I have heard that Australia is normally a net sink of carbon dioxide. Is this true and what is the evidence? I need a source I can point someone to.
It is especially gratifying to watch Ben Shapiro skewer Cenk Uygak on the debate stage.
Uygak is twice Ben’s physical size with half his intellect and 100% less self discipline.
Don’t get me started, Berka.
😀
How the War against Mangers and Menorahs Began.
An excellent read by Naomi Wolf. It is rather long, so perhaps book mark it for when you have time.
We can be Heroes, Cats …
This is how it’s done, Cats! 🙂
Accompanied my mother to the 7pm mass at St. Anthony’s (in Goldstein electorate). Happy to report that it was packed.
Lush, very very lush:
Carolyn’s fingers …
Perth Calling:
Mention of Ms Farrelly reminded me of Midget and the Farrelly’s. Went on a fossick without luck but it did toss up this:The Victims – Television
Addict. Did not know Mr Faulkner was in the Farrelly’s.
If you have not yet nipped over to Michael Smith’s to view the excerpt Eva Vlaadingerbroek’s speech on freedom, do so.
She will make you glow through Christmas Day.
But, where did she find that name?
If there’s a Welcome to Country* tonight I am perma-lapsed and basically Orthodox. Might go to a Coptic Church.
*It was bad enough at my mate’s kid’s confirmations.
I talked to two lefties after 9/11 and they thought America had it coming.
Yep; all lefties think (sic) others have it coming until it comes to them to.
9/11 was essentially done by Saudis was it not?
Yes, but was it condoned, organised or supported by the reigning regime of Saudi Arabia?
Not sure- I know the Bush crime family is/was thick with the House of Saud
On this Christmas Eve:
Lorelei
It’s all a crock of shit. There is no source or point.
I watched that interview with Morgan yesterday.
The continual delegitimising of a real genocide, the holocaust, when this thug just couldn’t stop referring to Israel’s offensive as “genocide of the Palestinians” was sickening.
All the hamas supporters are trotting out the same crap.
We saw monty try it on a few weeks back as well, of course.
“The leaders of Hamas to be stripped of their billions, and kept at hard labor, caring for Israeli widows and orphans for the rest of their miserable lives.”
No. Those identified as terrorists should be shot. That’s the only threat they understand.
Just caught a bit of the nightly sports report and Khawaja was still having a whinge about being chastised by the ICC for his Pro- baby murdering and rapist markings on his shoes.
He was indulging in a bit of whataboutism, referring to Marnus L and a small sticker of an eagle on the toe of his bat (put your hand up if you weren’t aware of that until now).
I assume the eagle refers to Isaiah 40:31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles…..
I don’t think there is any comparable link between what Khawaja is spruiking and Marnus.
Perhaps Khawaja could join Faruqi on a one-way trip to Pakistan where he can wear his trash to his hearts content? I wonder why they don’t want to live there?
Eva Vlaadingerbroek
Magnifique. Enough to make a lapsed agnostic personage take up arms to defend what remains of the West.
Magnifique in every way.
Have just the very bestest Christmas Cats – you deserve it.
I’m watching the Carols from Melbourne and I must say, uninspiring, boring even. Last night was all joy and classic carols. Tonight, some sort of unfunny patter, some arty rubbish and no joy. Disappointing.
Sancho Panzer
Dec 24, 2023 5:30 PM
Robert Sewell
I bet you were one of those who were surprised about the ability of the government to suspend just about every right you ever had, and was able to forbid you entry into certain businesses if you didn’t comply with their ‘vaccine mandate’ which you thought you had every right to refuse?
Orhow about singing in Church?
Or travelling to another country?
Or even getting off a ship loaded down with sick passengers while the media ran 24 hour bulletins about how you wer ging to die?
And now that same government has passed an online bill that removes your right to free speech on a a bureacrats whim? That doesn’t even define what the speech it can ban, is?
Good luck with finding out the detail of the Bill we have to pass to find out what was in it.
Just wait until you find out the rules the UN is going to apply to you under their world wide pandemic treaty which our government is dead set keen on signing – without even asking us.
Merry Christmas everyone
Have a good one and don’t let the bastards get you down
Remember that joke about a politician being asked if the French Revolution was successful, and he answered “it’s too soon to know” after only two centuries. Consider how many decades and generations it’s taken to overturn issues pioneered by suffragettes. Civilisation cultural modifications take their own time and can’t be pushed.
Iraq was two decades ago. At the time I thought the Middle East needs destabilisation from its morubund rut, and where better to initiate it than the regime located in the middle of Islamic geography. I thought this will take at least three decades or a generation or two to reveal the potential outcome. The Arab Springs looked like a too early, too eager start – they failed.
It looks grim, but the outcome of the invasion of Iraq is not over yet according to the calendars of historical cultural revisions.